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No Country For Old Men doesn’t feel like a Coen movie...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:08:26 -0800

No Country For Old Men doesn’t feel like a Coen movie until you realise how much it resembles big brother Fargo.

(illustration by Blake Loosli)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763639/

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:44:29 -0800

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0763639/:

I just figured out that Cristian’s mom on One Life to Live is played by Saundra Santiago, formerly Detective Gina Calabrese of Miami Vice.

YouTube - ‘Zebulon’ by Rufus Wainwright on Q...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:43:35 -0800

YouTube - ‘Zebulon’ by Rufus Wainwright on Q TV

With Owen Pallett making music these days, I hadn’t realised how much I miss Rufus Wainwright.

If I spent half as much time looking for the right chair that I spent looking for the right notebook, I'd have twice as many words written.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:27:05 -0800

@jeffeastin’s White Collar script Twitpics are...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:43:33 -0800

@jeffeastin’s White Collar script Twitpics are fascinating.

remember, Neal NEVER tells Peter a direct lie.

"The whole family was digging potatoes, but Rudolf wanted to talk about dance."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:31:44 -0800

“The whole family was digging potatoes, but Rudolf wanted to talk about dance.”

- Razida Evgrafova, Nureyev’s sister.

Matt Bomer & Tim DeKay

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:37:00 -0800

Matt Bomer & Tim DeKay :

stefstein:

This was a live chat from last week (3/4 maybe?) with Matt & Tim answering viewer questions about them/the show. I can’t recommend this enough, if you’re a White Collar fan. It’s an hour long, so — that’s a bit of an investment, but it goes pretty quickly and is tooooooootally worth it.

Further Enticements:

1. Singing. At several points.
2. Tim calls Matt “Matty”
3. Declarations of love. For real.
4. Gratuitous pawing (seriously, it seems like their natural reaction to anything is “grab the other guy”)
5. Tim’s “I’m thinking” face magically transforms him into a Golden Retriever.
6. Cursing, elevators, donkeys, Gandhi, and MUCH MUCH MORE.

7. Gratuitous praise of Vancouver, BC.
8. Matt loves Fitzgerald, and Tim wants them to play Nick and Gatsby.
9. PARKOUR.
10. Matt compares himself to Paul Newman, but in a totally indirect and genuine way and, man, I just love these two.

YouTube - 2010 Winter Olympics Montage - Stephen Brunt Video...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:39:00 -0800

YouTube - 2010 Winter Olympics Montage - Stephen Brunt Video Essay [via]

There’s a lot more to say about these Olympics. I have a lot more to say about these Olympics. The rest of the world won’t fully understand what happened to Canada during those seventeen days until we figure it out for ourselves.

This is a start.

fuckyeahcanada: He’s 22. He won a Stanley Cup and scored the...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:36:29 -0800

fuckyeahcanada:

He’s 22. He won a Stanley Cup and scored the gold-medal winning goal on home ice. Say what you want about the hype, but he is now a legend.

Fuck. Now I have to love Crosby.

I’ve been weird about him since the beginning and could never really explain why. I’ve always disclaimed my hatred because I know it’s irrational, I know. I don’t like hype at the best of times, but Sidney Crosby was a whole new level. Besides, he plays for Pittsburgh; it was easy to hate.

But over the course of these Olympics, I’ve found that hate harder and harder to sustain. It wasn’t the goal that did it for me, but his interview afterwards. When asked to describe his winning shot, Crosby said he couldn’t remember. Maybe it went five-hole (it did), but he couldn’t remember. We’ve never been more Canadian than in these seventeen days, and Sidney Crosby was never more Canadian than when he casually tossed off an analysis both humble and correct.

I’m suspicious of too much talent too young, but then, I missed Gretzky when he was young and brilliant. I missed all those times before when Canada proved itself, so Crosby had to make that goal. He had to prove Canada again for a generation that didn’t quite believe.

"Thank you, Canada: For being such good hosts. For your unfailing courtesy. For your (mostly)..."

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:03:50 -0800

“Thank you, Canada: For being such good hosts. For your unfailing courtesy. For your (mostly) beautiful weather. For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television. For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents. For your unique TV commercials — for companies like Tim Hortons — which made us laugh and cry. For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon. For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games — you’ve made wearing your name a cool thing to do. For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display. For not honking your horns. I didn’t hear one car horn in 15 days — which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting. For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years. For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy. For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary. For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one. For always saying nice things about the United States…when you know we’re listening. For sharing Joannie Rochette with us. For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society. Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us.”

- Brian Williams, Leaving behind a thank-you note for Canada (via apsies)

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Brian Williams … what a mensch.
(via stefstein)
You’re welcome, The World. Canada is so full up of love and joy right now, we have to pass it on. We don’t know what to do with ourselves. This has never happened before. Being Canadian has never felt like this.